MC Alger Football: Coach, Ali La Pointe Stadium, Honours and African Kick Off Times

MC Alger, formally Mouloudia Club d'Alger, are a football club from Algiers, founded in 1921, playing in green and red and owned by the state energy company Sonatrach. Rhulani Mokwena coached the club from 21 July 2025 to 14 March 2026, and the club have played home matches at the 40,000 capacity Ali La Pointe Stadium since 2024. His spell gives South African soccer readers a direct connection to the Algiers club.

Think of MC Alger as the old family compound on a Lagos street that everyone can point to, even after the gate has been repainted and the name on it changed twice. The club began as Mouloudia Club Algérois, spent 1977 to 1986 as Mouloudia Pétroliers d'Alger, and has carried its present name ever since. The honours with their years, the 1976 final and the two derbies are set out below, along with how to read the live fixtures, squad and table from Lagos, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Accra or Kampala.

Who Are MC Alger, El Mouloudia of Algiers?

MC Alger are one of the most decorated clubs in Algerian football. You will see them written as MCA or El Mouloudia in Algerian coverage, and as MC Alger FC on plenty of African fixture lists, so the labels change while the club stays the same. The colours are green and red, and the owner is Sonatrach, the state energy company.

Where Is the Latest MC Alger News?

The latest MC Alger news sits in the live news module at the top, which updates as stories break, so team news, coaching changes and transfer talk are always current there. So, if you searched for MC Alger news after a CAF Champions League night, start with the module. Then read on for the context, because a result against CR Belouizdad or JS Kabylie carries a weight that an ordinary league win does not, and the headlines rarely stop to explain why that is.

How Do You Follow MC Alger Fixtures, Results and the Table From Africa?

The quickest route is the Mc Alger fixtures list, which shows every match with its competition and kick off time, while the results and the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 table (the log, if you are reading in Johannesburg) update after each game. Algiers keeps the same clock as Lagos all year, so a match at 20:00 in Algiers is 20:00 WAT, 21:00 SAST, 22:00 EAT for Nairobi and Kampala, and 19:00 GMT for Accra. When you read the table, check points first and then games played, because continental fixtures can leave clubs with uneven numbers of matches at certain stages of a season.

How Is the MC Alger Squad Set Out?

MC Alger's squad module groups footballers under their positions and nationalities, reflecting changes made during transfer windows. Nigerian readers can use those nationality entries to identify compatriots representing the Algiers club. The history of MC Alger players is easier to fix in print: Lakhdar Belloumi, Omar Betrouni, Zoubir Bachi and Youcef Belaïli of Algeria are among the best known, while Moussa Coulibaly and Drissa Diakite of Mali and Mamam Cherif Touré of Togo show that the shirt has long travelled south of the Sahara.

What Have MC Alger Won?

MC Alger have won 10 Algerian league titles, 8 Algerian Cups, a record 5 Algerian Super Cups, the Algerian League Cup in 1998 and the African Cup of Champions Clubs in 1976. The league titles tell the story of a club with two golden spells: five between 1971-72 and 1978-79, and three in a row from 2023-24 to 2025-26, with 1998-99 and 2009-10 in between. That recent run is, in my opinion, the clearest sign that the modern club has found a winning habit again, and the Super Cups of 2024 and 2025 grew straight out of it.

Beyond the league, MC Alger lifted the Algerian Cup in 1970-71, 1972-73, 1975-76, 1982-83, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2013-14 and 2015-16. In regional competition they won the Maghreb Cup Winners' Cup in 1971 and 1974, and finished runners up in the Maghreb Champions Cup in 1975 and the North African Cup of Champions in 2010. On the continent, they reached the African Champions Cup quarter finals in 1977 and 1980 and the CAF Champions League quarter finals in 2021 and 2025. Perhaps the step beyond that stage is the one that would mean most to supporters, given how long 1976 has stood alone.

From Mouloudia Club Algérois to Ali La Pointe: The History in Brief

MC Alger were founded in Algiers in 1921 as Mouloudia Club Algérois, and published histories give two dates for it, 7 August 1921 and 31 August 1921. The club became Mouloudia Pétroliers d'Alger in 1977, a name pointing to the petroleum industry, and returned as Mouloudia Club d'Alger in 1986. Home has moved too, from Stade Omar Hammadi and the Stade 5 Juillet 1962 to the 40,000 capacity Ali La Pointe Stadium in Algiers, the club's ground since 2024.

The defining match came in 1976, when MC Alger became the first Algerian club to win a continental title by beating Hafia Conakry of Guinea in the African Cup of Champions Clubs final. They lost the first leg 3-0 in Conakry, a deficit that would have finished most ties, then won the return leg, with Zoubir Bachi among the scorers, and took the penalty shootout 4-1. It was a bit like a jam on Third Mainland Bridge clearing just as you had given up on reaching home. And, it crowned a year in which the club also won the league and the Algerian Cup in 1975-76.

Why Do MC Alger Matter From Lagos, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Accra and Kampala?

MC Alger matter across the continent because the CAF Champions League puts them in front of every African audience, and their 1976 title belongs to the early story of that competition. In Lagos, the club tends to come up when a viewing centre argument turns to how North African sides handle the home leg of a tie. For Super Eagles players, an away night in Algiers offers a test of adapting to a different crowd and tempo.

In Nairobi, Kampala and Accra, most followers meet MC Alger through continental coverage rather than the Algerian league itself, and evening matches in Algiers land at a friendly hour on East African and Ghanaian clocks. For these readers, the history with West Africa is worth knowing. The 1976 final was against Guinea's Hafia Conakry, and the Mali pair Moussa Coulibaly and Drissa Diakite, together with Togo's Mamam Cherif Touré, all wore the green and red.

For Johannesburg readers, Rhulani Mokwena's coaching spell from 21 July 2025 to 14 March 2026 provides a South African connection. PSL supporters also follow MC Alger whenever the CAF Champions League puts them in the same competition as Sundowns or Pirates, often on pay television, streaming services and short clips on their phones. That continental setting makes MC Alger a useful reference point for South African fans comparing their own clubs with North African opposition.

Rhulani Mokwena at MC Alger: Why the Link Matters

Rhulani Mokwena was MC Alger head coach from 21 July 2025 to 14 March 2026. His spell during 2025-26 formed part of a league title campaign, giving South African readers a connection to that championship. Other managers in MC Alger's history include Michel Renquin in 2000-01, Artur Jorge in 2014-15 and Patrice Beaumelle in 2023-24. Consult the technical staff entries within MC Alger's live squad module for coaching appointments.

Which MC Alger Games Matter Most, and What Time Do They Kick Off?

The two fixtures that matter most are the Algiers derby against CR Belouizdad and the meeting with JS Kabylie, known in Algeria as the Classico algérien. The derby brings Algiers neighbours together on the pitch, while the Kabylie game sets two of the most decorated clubs in the country against each other. Add the CAF Champions League nights, where MC Alger carry the weight of being Algeria's first continental champions, and you have the dates their supporters circle first.

The time conversion is simple once you learn it: take the Algiers time as WAT, add one hour for SAST, add two hours for EAT and take away one hour for GMT. A 17:00 derby in Algiers, for example, would be 17:00 WAT in Lagos, 18:00 SAST in Johannesburg, 19:00 EAT in Nairobi and Kampala, and 16:00 GMT in Accra. The fixtures module does the sum for you, but it helps to know it when a CAF date is announced before the kick off times are confirmed, so you can plan the evening early.